Jude Law (Road to Perdition) leads an exceptional ensemble cast, including Gretchen Mol ( Girls Club ), Academy Award® nominees* Jennifer Tilly (Monsters, Inc.), Brenda Blethyn (Lovely & Amazing), as well as Martha Plimpton (Beautiful Girls), Jon Tenney (You Can Count on Me) and Jeremy Piven (Black Hawk Down), in this enchanting, 'sweet love story ( Hollywood Online ) of a romance born with a little help from destiny and a few determined matchmakers! When five-year-old Danny helps deliver a family friend's baby, Anna, he tells his father that he will one day marry her. But it's not until he moves back to Americatwenty-five years laterthat fate steps in literally knocking him off his bike and into the arms of a beautiful, grown-up Anna (Mol)! But though destiny may be on his side, Danny (Law) discovers that time is not...because Anna is not only unsure of her feelings for Danny, but she's also engaged to be married to someoneelse! *Tilly: Supporting Actress, Bullets over Broadway (1994); Blethyn: Actress, Secrets & Lies (1996); Supporting Actress, Little Voice (1998)
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Desperate attempt at magical reality fails:
I adore Jude Law, but even his considerable charms are sadly dimmed in this pathetic effort. The plot reads like a reject from the "high-concept" comedy assembly line at 1980's Touchstone Pictures: young boy delivers baby, falls instantly in love with infant girl, then returns more than 20 years later to fulfill a "destiny" he had apparently forgotten: marrying her. You'll never guess what happens next ... Oh, all right! Of course you will. Aside from how truly dreadful it is, this film lacks any... more info
Music From Another Room: A Guy's Description of Love:
When five year old Danny helps deliver the baby of his deceased mother's best friend, he declares that he will marry her, the baby, someday. His father then moves him to England and the story picks up 25 years later.
We next see an absolutely gorgeous Danny (Jude Law) on his return to the United States where he must find employment and a place to live. Fate jumps in and provides him with both in the form of a rented room above a bakery and a job delivering baked goods. Fate again steps in and creates... more info
Formulaic "Music" hits all right notes with excellent ensemble cast.:
MUSIC FROM ANOTHER ROOM is definitely not just another romantic comedy. Yes, much of this screenplay is formulaic where you will know what is going to happen next, but so what-it works, and most effectively. From the very moment that young Danny is asked to reach in Brenda Blethyn's womb to untangle the umbilical chord wrapped around her birthing-baby's neck, we enter the unusual world of passion,fate and destiny. Forward around twenty years and Danny (a very funny and appealing Jude Law) is destined by... more info
A sweet movie:
I like this movie with the ensemble cast. It has interesting story lines with the characters. I like the premise that following one's passion isn't always easy, but to live a life without passion is to resign to "death" of your soul.
